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Prayer
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Please
Give Thanks For
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The
work of MCC Brighton this weekend over the
Brighton pride festival.
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All
those who agreed to write letters of support for
Masoud’s fresh application for asylum in the UK –
they do make a real difference.
Please
Pray For
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Anna
as she continues to recuperate from
surgery.
Friends
of Steve Gray’s called Gill and Wieszek.
Wieszek committed suicide last week leaving Gill
and her children. Please pray for Gill and
the children as they struggle to make sense of
all this and for the repose of Wieszek’s
troubled soul.
Khang,
partner of Pastor Thomas Friedhoff of MCC
Hamburg. Khang is being treated for TB and
is very low at the moment. Please pray for
both Khang and Thomas.
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Spirituality
Opportunities
This
Week
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Prayer
Requests
Did
you know you can text and receive prayer
requests to us. All you need to do is to
text your prayer request to us at: 07781
472445. If you wish to receive prayer
requests please text and tell us!
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Birthdays
in August
Andrea
Proctor’s birthday is on the 20th and
Katie Irwin’s is on
24th.
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Our Website
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Daily
Devotional
We
produce a daily prayer devotional which is given
out each week in church. It has a Psalm,
prayer, reading, thought for the day and prayer
suggestions for every day of the week. It
normally follows the themes we are looking at in
our weekly sermons, but also usually has one
reading from one of the saints commemorated by the
world wide Church.
Sermons
on Line
Missed
church on Sunday? Don’t worry, you can catch
up with the sermon by going to our website, www.mccmanchester.co.uk and
pressing the sermon button. This means you
don’t miss the weekly teaching designed to help us
live as more faithful disciples of the Lord Jesus.
As
well as reading the sermon you can now listen to
it as a “podcast”. If you click on the audio
download button in the worship section of the
navigation bar you will be taken to the relevant
page. You can listen on line or by opposite
clicking and saving the file you can listen on
your computer or even save to an MP3 player and
listen whilst in the car, at the gym or when
having a walk.
You
can also download the weekly devotional booklet
there too.
Borrow
A Book
Visit
our library and see if there is a book you would
like to borrow. Simply email Andy your
choice and pick it up at church on Sunday.
We ask for a donation of £2 per book and a small
deposit per book.
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IN
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1.
Welcome
2.
Today’s Service
3.
This and That
4.
Thanks
5.
Financial Update
6.
Andy’s Movements This
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WELCOME |
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Welcome
to this newsletter and to the ministry of MCC
Manchester. If this is your first contact
with us, know that you are welcome. You can
take part in our ministry through visiting us as
we worship each week or by using our resources on
our website. You can keep in touch with us
through email, in person or by text. It is
our prayer that our people grow as committed
disciples of the Lord Jesus.
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TODAY'S
SERMON |
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Dan
looked at the parable of the Rich Fool; the story
that Jesus told about a rich man worried about how
to store up riches on earth but giving no thought
to his spiritual life or life after death.
Dan reminded us that our wealth is given to us to
use wisely with an eye on the next life.
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THIS
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Andy
has been appointed a member of the Management
Committee of the Greater Manchester Immigration
Aid Unit. He now helps with the
finance and administration of this unit and will
be helping them with registering as a charity and
building up a donor base of individuals and faith
based organisations who will give to their
work. The
Rev Kim Wasey, Anglican chaplain at the University
of Salford, is conducting research and
is looking for participants. If you are
female, under 35 and have experience of communion
in the Church of England...…would you be willing
to participate in a short research interview
(30-45mins) about your experiences of communion?
For more information, please contact Kim Wasey k.wasey@salford.ac.uk or 07944
155772. We are preparing a sermon
series to use
in the Autumn after the Pride
festival. It is inspired by the songs of
Madonna and her unique insight into life,
sexuality and spirituality, seeing similarities
and differences between this and the
Scriptures. On 9th September we
welcome the Rev
Jane Clarke as our guest
preacher. Last week Jane stepped
down after 12 years as pastor of the MCC in East
London. She, and her partner Kate Wood, have
now moved to Glasgow and after settling in and
finding work are hoping to start a new MCC
congregation there. Jane will be sharing her
plans with us and asking for our support, love and
prayers. A Readiness to Enter
Vocational Ministry Weekend (REVM) is
being held at the Queen’s Institute in Birmingham
on 22nd – 25th of October
and is open to those who wish to train to be
clergy in MCC and have a degree. For more
details please see Andy. Missed a
service? Now you can hear the sermon on
line – go to our website and in the
worship section of the navigation bar click on
“audio downloads” and listen to our sermons on
line or save them and listen on an MP3
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THANKS |
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Thank you
for your generosity last week. Last week 35 people
attended worship and the collection was £104 on top of
the £1500 or so that is sent by standing order to our
bank each month. 62 people attended worship
at least once in July and our average Sunday attendance
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FINANCIAL
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Ian has
now prepared our accounts for June and July. Thank
you for your incredible generosity. You give
generously and consistently and we have an income and
expenditure which is very much in excess of what we
would expect for a church of our size. In the
first six months of
2007 we have done very well indeed. We
started the year with just over £3,000 in the
bank, have had an
income of £17,597, spent £17,870 and
had £2,858 in the
bank at the end of June. We were owed
£1300 by the Inland Revenue and had liabilities of
£4407. Full copies of the accounts can be obtained
from Ian. The headline figures are: collections:
£2,755, direct to bank: £8,722, Inland Revenue: £2,213,
Smartie Fundraiser: £638. The balance of income
was made up by donations for the weekends away, a
contribution towards the photocopier from St
Chrysostom’s, donations for our crisis fund and £1,300
for Criminal Records Bureau checks. Our largest
items of expenditure are Andy’s stipend: £7,000, Rent
for the office, Sunday worship, the monthly mid week
service and the trans group: £2,750, tithes to MCC:
£3057 (we have to give 14% of almost all of our income
to the denomination, this figure decreases to 13% next
year – which should save us between £400 and £500 a
year. Other expenditure includes our insurance,
photocopier, postage, phone, internet access and web
hosting, equipment etc. Put simply our income is in
excess of our budget (of £34,000 for the year) and we
are breaking even. We need, however, to
increase giving by around £100 a month in order to fully
fund the pay rise we budgeted for Andy but which hasn’t
yet been paid this year and to pay a small stipend to
Neil, our musical director, which is due to start in
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ANDY'S
MOVEMENTS THIS WEEK |
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Andy takes
the service at the police college on Monday lunchtime
and then is visiting a prisoner. He is in the
office on Tuesday and away Weds – Saturday on the MCC
Mini-break. You can contact Andy via 0161
249 0649 or on his email. In an emergency you can
contact Andy via 07944
378049. |
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